The International Phonetic Alphabet is an alphabet designed to represent the sounds of various languages. See Wikipedia:International Phonetic Alphabet.
Consonants
Pulmonic Consonants
Coarticulated pulmonic consonants
Non-pulmonic Consonants
| Clicks |
Voiced Implosives |
Ejectives
|
| ʘ Bilabial |
ɓ Bilabial |
ʼ as in:
|
| ǀ Dental |
ɗ Dental/alveolar |
pʼ Bilabial
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| ǃ (Post)alveolar |
ʄ Palatal |
tʼ Dental/alveolar
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| ǂ Palatoalveolar |
ɠ Velar |
kʼ Velar
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| ǁ Lateral alveolar |
ʛ Uvular |
sʼ Alveolar fricative
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Unicode symbols for voiceless implosives exist (ƥ ƭ ƈ ƙ ʠ) but these are considered depreciated.
Vowels
|
Front |
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Central |
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Back
|
| Close |
i · y |
|
ɨ · ʉ |
|
ɯ · u
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|
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ɪ · ʏ |
|
ʊ
|
| Close-mid |
e · ø |
|
ɘ · ɵ |
|
ɤ · o
|
|
|
|
ə
|
| Open-mid |
ɛ · œ |
|
ɜ · ɞ |
|
ʌ · ɔ
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æ |
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ɐ
|
| Open |
a · ɶ |
|
|
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ɑ · ɒ
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Suprasegmentals
| ˈ |
Primary stress |
ˌfoʊnəˈtɪʃən
|
| ˌ |
Secondary stress
|
| ː |
Long |
eː
|
| ˑ |
Half-long |
eˑ
|
| ˘ |
Extra short |
ĕ
|
| . |
Syllable break |
ɹi.ækt
|
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Minor (foot) group
|
|
Major (intonation) group
|
| ‿ |
Linking (absence of a break)
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Tones & Word Accents
| Level |
Contour
|
| e̋ or ˥
|
| é ˦
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| ē ˧
|
| è ˨
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| ȅ ˩
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Diacritics
| ◌̥ |
Voiceless n̥ d̥ |
◌̤ |
Breathy voiced b̤ a̤ |
◌̪ |
Dental t̪ d̪
|
| ̬ |
Voiced s̬ t̬ |
̰ |
Creaky voiced b̰ a̰ |
̺ |
Apical t̺ d̺
|
| ʰ |
Aspirated tʰ dʰ |
̼ |
Linguolabial t̼ d̼ |
̻ |
Laminal t̻ d̻
|
| ˒ |
More rounded ɔ̜ |
ʷ |
Labialized tʷ dʷ |
~ |
Nasalized ẽ
|
| ˓ |
Less rounded ɔ̹ |
ʲ |
Palatalized tʲ dʲ
|
| ˖ |
Advanced u̟ |
ˠ |
Velarized tˠ dˠ |
ˡ |
Lateral release dˡ
|
| ˗ |
Retracted i̠ |
ˤ |
Pharyngealized tˤ dˤ |
̚ |
No audible release d̚
|
| ¨ |
Centralized ë |
̴ |
Velarized or pharyngealized ɫ
|
| ̽ |
Mid-centralized e̽ |
˔ |
Raised e̝ (ɹ̝ = Voiced alveolar fricative)
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